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How is sharing the locations of 400 nearby BSSIDs better? It's the fact that Apple spews this huge amount of info that allowed this research to happen, after a
by ncruces 2y ago
How is sharing the locations of 400 nearby BSSIDs better?
It's the fact that Apple spews this huge amount of info that allowed this research to happen, after all.
That’s according to two researchers at the University of Maryland, who theorized they could use the verbosity of Apple’s API to map the movement of individual devices into and out of virtually any defined area of the world.
- JumpCrisscross 2y ago> How is sharing the locations of 400 nearby BSSIDs better? Apple isn't constantly computing your precise location. It's happening on device. The fundamental problem is our devices are inadvertently broadcasting their own locations. Not that Apple is providing, in essence, a report on the public radio spectrum. (Do hidden SSIDs broadcast a BSSID?)
- ncruces 2y ago> Not that Apple is providing, in essence, a report on the public radio spectrum. Of the entire world. Provided in a nice enough package that with a little patience researchers could collect the location 480 million devices. > Do hidden SSIDs broadcast a BSSID? They do something worse: they force devices that want to connect to them to broadcast the BSSID all the time, which allows passive listeners to track them (e.g.) across a shopping mall.